How to add an empty folder in a Mercurial project?

Question

In my project, I am using Mercurial and a folder in when the user can upload file. But since the user will upload files, the folder is empty.

I don't know how I can add this folder to my project without putting any file inside.

Do you know how I can do ?

Answer 1

One of the solution is to add a .emtpy file in your repository :

$ touch uploads/.empty
$ hg add uploads/.empty

Answer 2

I have created a python script that automates the process of creating/deleting those files. The script has been released here.